BUKIT MERTAJAM: Thousands of devotees packed the streets in the middle of town here as Tai Su Yeah, also known as the King of Hades, was sent off in a bonfire at the Pek Kong Cheng Temple in Jalan Pasar.After a two-year hiatus of the Hungry Ghost Festival celebration due to the Covid-19 pandemic, droves of people started gathering at the site from as early as 7pm on Sunday, offering prayers to the 8.53m-high effigy sheltered under a zinc roof beside the temple.
GEORGE TOWN: In a painstaking effort, a group of eight youths spent a whole month delicately putting together a dragon-shaped paper ship, made with bamboo, cardboard and 6,000 pieces of folded Ong Seng Jee (joss paper with sutras imprinted).
ALOR SETAR: Thousands of devotees gave a grand send-off to the King of Hell effigy (Tai Su Yeah in Hokkien) which made it to the Malaysian Book of Records as the largest in the country at the Tow Boo Keong Temple in Mergong on Tuesday (Aug 9) near here.